The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-12
WAR IN THE STREETS.
Details of the Fighting at MItchells-
town on Friday.
Preparations for the Great Public
Funeral Today.
o'Brien, Under Arrest, Makes Some
Bold utterances.

o'Brien, Under Arrest, Makes Some
Bold Utterances.
DUBLIN, Sept I1.-O'Brien was arrested
today while seeing Labouchere off ON the
steamer. Mitchellstown has been quiet to-
day. The victims of the fight of Friday will
be given public funeral Monday, which
will be an occasion Of great demonstration.
The man Shinnick and the boy Casey are dy-
ing from wounds received Friday. Casey's
ante mort EN- deposition states that he was
standing near Shinnick. at a corner of the
square, when Head Constable O'Sullivan
came to window Of the barracks, and fred
at him. Four witnesses confirm this state
ment. The Nationalists say they have evil
dence to establish the identity of the police
man who shot Riordan.
OBrien spent the day at Ballybrock. in
company with Messrs. Dillon and Harring-
ton. He received telegram from Labou-
chere and Brunner. requesting him to accom-
pany them to Londan. O'brien. accompa-
MED by Harrington. went on board the Kings
town boat for the purpose of declinining the
invitation, when the detectives met him and
said he would not be arrested If he pledged
himself not to go to England. O'Brien re-
fused, was taken into custody and was es-
corted to the Imperial Hotel and told that he
might stay there all night If he would prom
ise not to make a speech. The promise was
not given. He addressed the crowd from the
balcony and in the course of his remarks he
said: so long as there is breath in my body
my voice shall not be silenced until / am
a fn SNIFF 70 nAAlI
town. When in Kingstown 1 was told that
would not be arrested if / did not under
take to go to England. That shows the gov
ernment is beginning to dread US in Eng
land"
O'Brien will remain at the hotel tonight.
and proceed to Mitchelstown in the morn
ing. The crowd gathered in front of the ho-
tel is very enthusiastic. O'Brien, in an in
terview, said that he had no intention of GO
ing to England when he boarded the boat.
He merely went there to see Labouchere as
to making speech at the hotel.
Preparing for the Funeral.
Contingents of Nationalists from all the
surrounding towns promise to attend the fu-
nerals tomorrow. The procession will be
enormous. The police refuse to allow the
cortege to traverse the regular route to the
cemetery, which passes the barracks. The
coffin OF the old man who was shot dead
Friday, whose name was Lonergan, not
~tASAAoAs 40 AhoSAibC0.
MICHAEL LoNERGAN,
Murdered September 9th,
RequieScat in pace.
Plain Talk.
Labouchere, Harper, Drummer and other
members of Parliament addressed meeting
at Cork Saturday, called to denounce the ac-
tion of the government.
Davit. spoke at a meeting in Dublin to-day.
Ia L.
and me-. aing of 0'Brien's speech, and the
Mitchellstown Irishmen would deserve the
contempt of the world il they allowed them
selves to be hunted from their cabins like
beasts. He complained bitterly against the
constabulary for Staying their own kith and
kin in cold blood, even with the word Of
command from ther officers
Calling the Government to Account.
LONDON, Sept. 10.-In the House of Com
mons today, Mr.. Sexton appealed to the
government to give such justification as they
could for the murderous action at Michels-
town yesterday. 1t was beyond doubt, he
said, that bloodshed had res ulted from the
waDtol attack of an armed force upon o
body citizens engaged in the exercise Of
their andoubted constitutional right of pub
lie meeting. On every previous occasion,
application had been made for the accommo-
dation Of government reporter and had
never been refused. This time no applica-
tion was made, but another course was
adopted, whose apparent object was to ex-
cite the passions of the people and provoke
them to violence. Parnellite cheers.) Who
ordered the tiring? What steps had been
taken to identify the men who committed
the murders? The catastrophe was ineyita-
BILE, and the result of language and acts of
the government, who had found 1t easier to
begin than to end the conflict (Cheers.)
Mr.. Balfour replied that Mr.. Sexton had
given an account of the affair, more minute
and detailed than any he could lay before the
House, but which differed in every vital and
substantial particular from accounts the
government had received. The government
OF police. attempted to approach the vehi-
Gle from which the speakers were going to
address the people. Mr.. Condor shouted to
the people to close up against the police.
That was signal for assault upon the po--
lice, which was entirely unprovoked and Of
a violent and brutal character. They were
pelted with stones and blackthorn sticks,
thrown out Of formation and ridden down by
men on horseback, and driven back inside
the barracks. Doors and windows Of the
barracks were broken, and it was then in
self defence the shots were fired. (Cheers)
If this account was true, as he believed it
was, there never had been more wanton or
brutal assault upon the police. (Renewed
cheers.)
Mr.. Sexton asked, do you deny that the
space around the barracks was entirely free
when the shots were fired?"
Mr.. Balfour said he had given the sub
stance Of the reports telegraphed him. Fiji
ty:four police were struck, and 20 severely
injured. The men did no more than their
duty in resorting to these means of defence
as a last necessity. Fhe responsibility
rested with the band Of politicians calling
themselves leaders of the people, who spoke
oil government reporters as spies. II those
persons instead of talking about constitu-
tional agitation, had exercised their infiu-
ence to keep the people within the law, the
scenes. se7
Mr.. o'Connor justified Mr.. Condon's ad-
vice to the people to close their ranks. The
Irish members, he said, are doing their best
to restore the people, while the Irish officials
were doing their best to provoke them.
Slr Edward Reed, member for Cardiff.
warned the government that the English
electors would resent interference with pub
lie meetings. The people Of Great Britain,
he said, would not allow their fellow sub
lects In Ireland to be treated as the people of
Mitchellstown had been treated.
Wounds and Bandages.
The police at Mitchellstown assert that the
trouble there yesterday was due to National
| ist leaders shouting for the mob to hold to-
SCtuCis AHC NdtiOudiloto arc CAultdut ONcL
the good fight they made yesterday. The
police paraded this morning. The majority
of them now wear bandages over the
wounds they received yesterday. Fourteen
| policemen who were injured during the riot
| ing were carried to the hospital.
The Pail Mall Gazette says: ''The memory
| Of old man Riordan, lying dead in the market
| place at Michellstown, his grey hair matted
with blood, will haunt both nations for
| many days to come"
Another person has died from the effects
Of injuries received at Michellstown. 1t
was quiet throughout the night All per-
| sons who attended yesterdays meeting have
returned home. Fifty-four constables and
| $50 civilians were injured.
The question as to the right or wrong OF
Mr.. O'Brien's failure to appear for trial is
| the foremost topic of discussion in London,
| and out of the large number of issues that
have been dragged into the consequent dis
putes, many of them wholly irrelevant, num-
berless fights have arisen and countless
friendships have been severed.